Thread: BN rep called Nook color a 'toy', recommended original Nook
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Old 12-11-2010, 11:19 PM   #71
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Originally Posted by MV64 View Post
Serious work can be done a computer. Serious work cannot be done on a Color. It's "just" a gadget, a grown up word for toy.
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Then she pointed to the Nook color still in my hands. "That's just a toy. It's got web browsing and games and stuff".
The original quote is listed above.
Additional features seem to be the reason it was called a toy.

By that definition perhaps the IBM 1620 which was the first computer I worked with was not a toy, but the nook allows for "serious work" (whatever that means) that the 1620 could never do.
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